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Proceedings of the Eoyal Irish Acaderiuj. 



Fontemel (the name suggestive of Fontemel, in Dorsetshire),^ which 

 lay between Corcomohide and Kilmallock ; it and Iniskef ty (Gephthine) 

 corresponded to Connello lolegar, or loregar (Uregare) ; Carbri 

 fromCroom to Bruree f Cony 11, over Shanid and Glenquin ; Othenach, 

 Huheny, Hutheny, Wotheny, Wodeny, or Woney, was Uaithne, or 

 Oneybeg, while the cantred of the Ostmen lay round Limerick.^ 

 Half a century later Adare had replaced Groom, and Grene, loregar ; 

 the cantreds of Ardagh and Browry also appear. " Crometh " once 

 more superseded Adare in 1377, and Kilmehalloc, Eontymkillin 1381, 

 in which latter year Adare and Croom are merged into the " Lordship " 

 of the Earl of Kildare. 



!N^0TEs oif THE History. 



VI. The Rise of Cheistianity. — This vast and obscure subject we 

 rather treat (in our present most defective knowledge) as detached 

 notes on the early missionaries and church-founders. ^Most of our 

 material is late and unreliable. If we accept the late tenth-century 

 " Tripartite Life of St.Patrick,"^ as containing a base-work of authentic 

 history, we can give Patrick's itinerary on his mission in the Limerick 

 district, about 440. He visited the Hui Cuanach (Coonagh), the 

 southern Deisi (Deisibog), Clar, Cella rath, Grian, Cell Tedel (Kilteely), 

 the Hui Eidgente, Carn Eeredaig,*^ Domnach mor Alaige Aine, Tirglas 

 Sangal (Singland), Luimneach, Einninne,' and Knockpatriek (near 



J Cal. Papal Letters, vol. ii., p. 621. 



2 Conyl, i.e. Hy Chonaill, unbroken down to 1650 ; now broken into Upper 

 and Lower Connello, Shanid, and Glenquin baronies. 

 ^ Probably at one time it covered much of Kenry. 



^ The villata in 1303-4 were, according to the Irish "Pipe Rolls," Adar, 

 marcs; Pathgel, Iniskefti, and Ardagh, 3 m. each; Cromech, 5 m.; Kilmehallok, 

 £20 {sic); Dermochii (Darragh), 1 m. ; Natherach (Aherloe), 2s.; Any, 40s.; 

 Grene, 20s.; Karkine (lys), 40s. Total, £39; while O'Brien, of Thomond, was 

 called on to pay for 16 services, 32m. 



^ A sermon book of the tenth century. I cite the fine edition of Dr. "Whitley 

 btakes. It probably preserves earlier records ; but we must always bear in mind 

 that it was written as long after the events it discusses as we are from the reign of 

 Henry IV., and that the obliterating Norse wars lay between. 



" For Cairn Feredaig, see Dindsenchas [Revue Celtiqiie, 1894), No. 56, and 

 "Wars G. and G. in 967. It is now Seefin, in Coshlea. Feredach, of the race of 

 Eber, was, it is said, slain there by Tighernmais. 



' There M-as a Fenninis to the north of Cenn Febrat (near Ardpatrick). See the 

 " Colloquy," in " Silva Gadelica," II., p. 123. 



